forum media offices in gaza come under fire from israel which maintains its own aiming at terrorists. among other targets civilian homes and refugee camps while tel aviv comes under rocket attack yet again. and other stories from this past week israel's troops exchanged fire with syria where the rebels are gaining more support from the west to get rid of the assad regime and. the euro zone sits back in recession as millions take to the streets in the first coordinated european strike to demand an end to austerity. and china finishes its once in a decade power transfer with new leaders taking over the country's top posts and we find out what challenges lie ahead for beijing.

in the back of the past seven days top stories in the latest developments this is the weekly on r.t. we start with the breaking news this hour former reporters in gaza forced to scramble is their offices a targeted by israeli bombs several journalists have been wounded ten of if says it wants to send gaza back to the middle ages and is preparing a ground invasion while militants retaliate with guided rockets. has the latest. the reports we're receiving is that hoff of the people who have so far been treated at shifa hospital which is the biggest hospital in gaza city off of the people being rushed there are in fact children the hospital is simply not coping it's running short of space and also medical supplies at the same time there was an israeli air force strike that moved ten members of the same family killed when a three story building in which they were collapsed around them were also

witnessing an increase in the target of journalists all sister organization we see has an office in gaza city and just an hour after they left their office because of electricity cuts that office was for a story i'm israeli if the strike the israeli air force has targeted two media buildings and the army is not apologetic for this it says that it was in fact top indication and ten on the roof of the buildings that are being used by her must and that the i.d.f. did in fact know that they were journalists in this building we do know that several people among them journalists have been injured one camera man at least has lost an egg it was amputated after the office in which he works and came under fire so we're hearing from the army that they were aware that these foreign journalists and that it's becoming increasingly more dangerous for foreign journalists to work inside gaza and get the story out two rockets have been intercepted in the skies over television now they were intercepted by the iron dome missile defense system that was only launched of the city on saturday this is the fifth straight day that

tel aviv has been on the receiving end of a long range brainier made missiles while talking to people here in tel aviv so he immediately after we had these two missiles that were intercepted the general mood here is that the mall tel aviv comes under the firing line of missiles the more the government is going to be more prone to wards launching a ground offensive there has continued to be movement of tanks and armored personnel vehicles along the israeli gaza border we also heard from the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu at his weekly cabinet meeting that he will significantly. expand his operation in gaza and many people are reading into that that that means that a ground offensive is on the cards the idea of cheats also ordered an increase in the number of sorties eight militants in gaza so we are expecting that there are also be an increase in strikes over that of a gaza city in addition to this we having seventy five thousand reservists who gathering in the south of the country they haven't been given orders as far as

we're aware but certainly they are positioned well positioned to move into gaza if indeed they are called on to do that in london however has warned the tel aviv government not to go ahead with any kind of ground offensive saying that this will merely not be made well in the international community and of be hard to justify but we have however heard from the american president barack obama and he said that israel has the right to protect itself so there is an alliance amongst israelis that if they go ahead with this ground offensive they will receive support as they always have in the past from washington the army has also sealed all roads around gaza so those two another indicator that a ground offensive could be just a matter of hours if not days away. should be keeping you updated on on air and online as well simply follow her twitter stream for the latest. and also you are a bit correspondent so you this work you have been working in the office in gaza just before israeli rockets hit it and this is what he told us earlier. now to have

the fun out of no one expected this during the strikes power supplies often get cut off and then it becomes really difficult for us to find fuel for the generator i had that at that moment we decided to take a break in our work and go look for gas so that we can continue working early in the morning we left at around one am and added to it all have some of our friends are now in hospital just a little while ago there was a press conference where it was said that such an attack must be completely ruled out as a journalist can become targets for strikes a correspondent should share what he or she sees with the world even israeli journalists report from gaza it's unacceptable that media workers get attacked in such a way in situations like this we usually don't go to our homes just like we didn't during the has still a tease of two thousand and eight in two thousand and nine even though we know this is really dangerous up to the point of a ground operation however we prefer to stay at the office using any chance to do our job whenever the electricity comes on and when the electricity was off we

decided to go look for generator fuel and that's what saved us paid up we're talking about four tower blocks in gaza that have been used by media outlets since two thousand but during the war in two thousand and eight two thousand and nine israel struck these buildings too that some of our colleagues were injured and we know that we do a dangerous job. and my colleague research i spoke to documentary filmmaker and activist harry finn he says if you are a reporter covering events in gaza it's best to avoid all media senses. understanding that the media centers in gaza of which there are about five to seven predominant ones that are usually in apartment buildings totally taken over on different floors by various media organizations including the sister organization of russia today it's a has been they have been targeted by israeli airstrikes and they have then been told to evacuate evacuate totally and some of these sensors are actually basically

been razed to the ground so i'm getting very panicked calls from friends of mine and palestinians here in gaza saying do not try and go anywhere near any of the live studios here in gaza it is too dangerous you're an international but you may well be targeted yourself so i heard from one source of within the i.d.f. say these are perception strikes for example one building of journalists when he says a precision strike he targeted one floor however the building collapsed. israel is relying on the world not to doing anything while it uses disproportionate force or trying to assassinate its targets i don't doubt that it is targeting people accurately but is using such level of force when it does that collateral damage is occurring in every hour in gaza so israel has its objectives but it's the force and whether and read it's using which is an international bridge that under the law. israeli defense force spokes person of a tell them of it you said the journalists in israeli strikes only have themselves

to blame. we're talking about two media buildings indeed but on the roofs of these media buildings hamas wisely positioned a whole system of communications and electronics for its own personal operational work we targeted only these and ten as these communications center and i spread films earlier today showing this exactly you can see an accurate hit on the roof none of the floors were targeted of course there was a little bit of. it as a result of the explosive some windows shattered in the line but the direction was not to the floors but rather than ten as the communication centers on the roof i think that if a journalist chooses to locate himself near hamas facility that's a mistake and we are now in operation defending half of this country's population and we are determined to continue with this operation until we bring some peace and

quiet to this country the equation is very clear if there will be quiet in israel there will be peace and quiet in gaza but of course what the international community is really concerned about now is the increasing number of civilian deaths now last night i spoke with one of your colleagues joe sharon and he claimed that the masses actually rounding up civilians to shield targets you're about to bomb now now how can a mass possibly know your exact targets and respond quickly enough commas to start getting all the israeli cities you're more than welcome to spend just two hours in one of the biggest israeli cities that were targeted for the past two years either be'er sheva or ashkelon which dog each of these cities have more than two hundred thousand people did you ever feel what it's like to run into a shelter and have fifteen seconds to do it or to raise children in a family inside a shelter protected room and sleep there night after night this is not something normal this should not be this way but of course you can also i also as we can also governs the same question of course i beg to differ because you can't make this

equation hamas is starting see. villianous we are not looking to target civilians we are targeting terrorists and the why is he then the very reason the core reason why this is happening is because of israeli policy towards the gazans the way they've been suffering from this blockade that has been the provocation as well blockade there is a border to egypt the rough border it's open do you know that every day we allow patients from guys there to get hospitalization in israel despite the rocket fire do you know that we supply electricity to their eyes are we supply truckloads with supplies every day even today it's a matter of fact more than one hundred thirty trucks who entered gaza with a variety of supplies according to their requests this spite of the rocket fire what other country in the world would act this way. despite aid reportedly being sent into cars a u.n. spokesman chris gunness says gaza is heading for humanitarian disaster due to political failure israeli bombing runs and the notorious blockade we were hearing

as others that the situation in shifa hospital is deteriorating very rapidly and let's not forget that even before this latest flare up in violence shifa hospital had been hit by the blockade there was a lack of medicines there was a lack of training a lack of equipment so an already bad situation in that hospital one of the largest in the occupied palestinian territory has been made worse there are shortages according to the world health organization of essential and lifesaving drugs what we're seeing in gaza is the result of political failure we call on the politicians and the people who are able to make peace to redouble their efforts to do so because for every hour that goes past another child another woman another civilian the elderly the sick the dying they are in harm's way it's a situation which we in the united nations and in under find unacceptable in must

and it must end forthwith. on air and also online we bring you the latest from the middle east with live updates on our twitter stream and our web site online all the time otty dot com. you're watching the weekly here naughty scandal grip the very top of the american military establishment this week as david petraeus is going to stun ed became the latest victim of an f.b.i. of a love triangle more and that's coming up. and china gets its next chairman she's in pain needing a new group of officials to herald the country's growth further in a few minutes we look at the problems beijing's mr economy might face all that still to come.

catalonia wants to get its independence from the rest of spain locals feel that madrid texas all of catalonia economic success is a way putting the region into debt trust me hard only to have it all taxed away is very aggravating i can see why people are frustrated but the people who want independence have a very odd slogan catalonia a new european state so let me get this straight you want independence but you want to stay in the e.u. is that what you mean what exactly would that change that's not really gaining independence that shifting dependencies stay in the e.u. means you won't have control of your borders you'll still be on the euro c won't have your own currency you will be able to establish your trade standards those will be dictated to you by brussels and if you don't like the austerity measures from outsiders like in madrid then you might want have a conversation with the greeks because being an independent country in the e.u.

won't save you from people messing with your finances all i'm saying is that big truly independent means answer to no one not madrid not brussels but that's just my opinion. good. resistance is not of politics but a culture. is could. on its own. cultures of resistance on marching.

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interviews intriguing stories are you. trying. to find out more visit our big. this is the weekend the news continues aside from conflict with hamas in gaza israel has also been fighting on its northern front the israeli defense force confirmed they fired artillery into neighboring syria in response to gunfire aimed at his troops in the disputed gun and heights it's the first time in forty years israel has fought in to syria that came amid reports rebels captured an airport in the east of syria strengthening their hold of the iraqi border across this week western attempts to alice president assad gain momentum with france and turkey recognizing the new opposition group the national coalition the ministers are expected to discuss lifting an arms embargo monday paving the way for direct weapons deliveries to rebels iran has already responded saying that would amount to

organized terrorism journalist neil clark says the west is using libya the blueprint in syria. what we do is we get together some opposition puppets if you like not their heads together call them the government of libya and now syria and then we work to end the arms embargoes and very soon we'll be hearing talk i expect no fly zones this is all part of the plan to topple assad hypocrisy the western powers actually glaring it's ok for us to arm the rebels in syria but for anybody else to arm the syrians it's not allowed so it's absolutely appalling their policy we have the constitutional boat back in eighty seven percent syrians voted for it we had elections in may you know there is a every possibility of a change in syria through the ballot box but the west don't want that because they know the president say these two popular party has probably majority support within syria the last thing they want is the people's will in syria to prevail they want to impose by force

a puppet government. and you know what would happen at libya if that if a saudi's toppled we have lost in syria more chaos we have more death and destruction but the west doesn't really care about that it doesn't care what's happening in libya at the moment what it cares about is a new government in damascus which with many privatized the entire economy cut the links with iran and hezbollah and allow that you know that the move against iran to take place because this is all about paving the way toward if there are. the eurozone has been hit by a second recession according to figures published on thursday this just hours after twenty four hour strikes on more than twenty eight european countries virtually paralyzed as people once again vented their frustration over disintegrating economies first reports. saying. greece. italy. and portugal. europe's most debt ridden countries joining together with many others for the

continent's first cross border mega strike from the beginning it was clear that emotions were running high in many places madrid saw violence early on and after a brief calm the storm broke the anger of protesting is evident for various things between the protesters and the riot police is. almost three hundred three it's not hard to really get more symbolic candy for the she stood by the people say there are right now all across there are three legged government and between the people themselves that is why they are therapy but that is. where the bullets and violent confrontations with the authorities are becoming an auntie familiar sights the constant leaders stand firm the disparity is a necessary evil to cut the sky high deficit only vender the fourteenth the people of europe seem to have formed a county union to fight back against the prevailing type of stereotyping ahead of next week's budget meeting brussels will have been watching closely as the scenes

of police and protesters battling one another played out across the nobel peace prize winning. athlete dreads. the sex scandal which claimed the head of former general david petraeus this week turned on the man that took over from him as commander of the u.s. military in afghanistan general john allen's career is known trouble after it was revealed he had also exchanged e-mails with a term person. socialites the trances x. national defense former cia boss a trance stepped down after admitting to a relationship with his biographer paula broadwell she's being looked at by the f.b.i. of allegations she came to access to some of his classified data he however denies any leaks tenant conal jono kuku seven afghanistan for a fee is but leaves betrayed should actually have resigned long before over his face in the afghan campaign. there's

a lot of discussions going on that to tommy a suspect and that it was all done for political purposes we still have the unanswered questions of. you but as far as his relationship with mr broadwell i give him much lower marks for his actions in combat than i do in in the bedroom he should have resigned when his counterinsurgency strategy failed to produce results some comes in we take our military leaders and we build a very nice resume for them and it catches on in everybody starts to drink and from the same well i hold our military commanders to a very hostile gander look we put young men in risk there and they give it everything they've got and it's the policy has failed we have young man and how school right now all over this country that will die in afghanistan next summer for no other reason than profiting off a corrupt inner locking criminal enterprise which is what the karzai government has

become that's my real problem with it i was a soldier for over twenty years so i care deeply about those young men and women. on the website of the moment some petersburg's hard core fans full ranks of security personnel and hit a goalie with a flare rocket causing a high profile game to be abandoned. also online thousands. in protest at the rules that led to the death of a woman who was denied help to terminate her pregnancy. and he. publishes an ad in the local newspaper telling president obama's supporters. in his shop. to find out. new leaders have been anointed this week in china with jim ping becoming the communist party's new secretary general he took over from he who saw through a decade long transformation which led to it overtaking japan as the world's second

largest economy the new leaders of valid to tackle the challenges of corruption growing divide between rich and poor and environmental pollution among others still the main goal remains keeping the economy booming the i.m.f. predicts it will overtake its american rival in just four years hong kong based financial expert francis loon believes that the u.s. will no longer get everything its own way if china strength. yes the new leadership showed china you. can continue. so what this means to continue to grow economically what china would do is to continue to spring for the spring to reach. china ok and can achieve parity with america if that is the case i don't think america can throw its weight around the world with out a pole know this now you can't you can't do anything it wants but if china

becomes. a power parity with the u.s. then things change. ati live here moscow after the break all out as a comma in the battle for peace and justice a special report but with more news certified. remains in this tree even for specialists a voice can produce several sounds it warms between aeons the art of throat singing comes naturally picked up like a language. a

language of communicating with nature it said that's where throat singing originates from the names believe not only animals but also all surrounding objects like reverse forests and even stones of souls by imitating the sounds they believe assumes to capture the power of nature. was. there are special instruments that accompany the singing if gainey says there is even a legend about his instrument a gill it says it wants to leave to poor shefford who had the best horse that won every competition but jealous people killed it on the horse was revived as an instrument. of so pitiful is because of the spirit of the horse coming to his dream and said make an instrument from the tree the sounding board from the leather of my

face the strings. and to remember me make an engraving of my head part of the instrument he did so i could use from him to give you which means come back and this malady. an instrument is called. to fly as one of the most famous groups in the republic their next goal is to tour broad they say for you are peons it's difficult to pick up and sing so i asked them to teach me and see if i can do it. cheer it up and they were. sharing oh you thought it was sure they can come through and was take gang are all. but now it

is part of the song and not the actual fruit singing which i didn't dare try to repeat. so maybe you have to be born here to be able to sing like this i thought so until i met mall she looks like a deveny and i don't even speak their language but she is from japan. most as to foreign minds from two hundred years ago until sappy here she's not planning a professional singing career she keeps practicing just because it's become part of her nature.

sure my. feet. here's one of the largest rivers in the world the plan is to dam all the major tributaries of the amazon river. there will be immense pressure not only on

ecological reserves but also on the communities and the territories that are used sustainably by indigenous people. meanwhile agribusiness is encroaching illegal logging is taking place and so the shingle basin is now at a crossroads and this is there's a resistance against this dam project that has gone on for twenty years. who had gathered here to defend all waters as it on demand so right. if they see these energy will power and the big al-ameen in companies and on mining companies who are well and resources they.